Lawyer Cites AIDS Risk in Appeal of Extradition
From Reuters
JERUSALEM —
A man convicted in absentia of a murder in France should remain in Israel rather than risk contracting AIDS in a French jail, his lawyer was quoted Sunday as telling the Supreme Court.
State radio quoted defense attorney Roland Roth, in an appeal of the government’s extradition decision, as saying that the health of his client, William Nakash, 25, would be jeopardized if he were imprisoned in France. Roth said that 10% of French prisoners suffer from acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
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